Training will aid recovery

Grant will fund sessions on bouncing back after disaster

In the Ozarks, folks like to use plain common sense to deal with issues - as we note in this regular editorial feature on "common sense" solutions.

Being ready for disaster before it hits is a smart thing to do. The Community Foundation of the Ozarks applied for and has received a $248,000 grant to offer disaster resiliency training for nonprofit agencies. The ice storm six years ago and the Joplin tornado in 2011 are evidence enough that responding to disaster can be challenging, especially for agencies that step in to help. This training will help those agencies be prepared for the next disaster and to recover from that disaster so they will be prepared for the next one. Ensuring that agencies - such as the American Red Cross, Ozarks Food Harvest and Catholic Charities, to name a few that have been called upon in recent disasters - are equipped to respond and recover is ... just common sense.

The Missouri State University Bears basketball team needs fans - fans who are awake and willing to make a little noise. The Bears have been fighting back from some devastating pre-Christmas losses, and the team needs support. As sports columnist Kary Booher said, "...crowds outside the student section are downright disappointing." Stand up and cheer. It's just common sense.

Mexican meth is flooding into the Ozarks, according to Drug Enforcement Agency agent Sgt. Dan Banasik, who added, "It's supply and demand." We have worked hard in the Ozarks to shut down dangerous local meth labs, making it difficult and risky to try. Now it is time to turn "supply and demand" into difficulty and risk for sellers and buyers. Allowing meth to destroy so many lives makes no sense. Determining that as a community we will stop it is ... just common sense.

Greene County has moved to foreclose on two developments that have failed to make promised payments in 2012. Wilson's Creek, under Larino Properties, and Jamestown, under American Equities of Missouri, came up short $22 million in bond payments. Presiding County Commissioner Jim Viebrock said he would use the county's authority to foreclose on failed developments, and these are good examples of why it is necessary. In fact, it's just common sense.

With 231 news cases of the flu reported in Greene County last week, the county has well exceeded the number of flu cases in all of the previous flu season. We've said it here before, but it bears repeating. Stay home if you're sick and, if you can, get a flu shot. It's just common sense.

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Training will aid recovery

In the Ozarks, folks like to use plain common sense to deal with issues ? as we note in this regular editorial feature on 'common sense' solutions.